I don’t want to bum anybody out, but summer’s almost over. With an emphasis on almost, meaning anything can still happen (aside from reclaiming that unbridled feeling of summer’s start and infinite possibilities; we’re definitely in the zone of finitude, with all its attendant reminders of our own corporeal mortality, now)! LIVE IT UP! Really. We are sitting right in the heart of the tail-end of the season, it is incumbent upon you to really live it up. As it happens, many of Stereogum’s favorite artists took the month of July to release jams perfectly calibrated to cure this existential dilemma. Or, put briefly: This month, the jams were summery! (As a programming note, we did not have a June Monthly Mix because of its proximity to our annual Cruel Summer, which is a three-hour beast you can still stream infinitely.) A breakdown of this month’s harvest:

The HAIM girls upped their own ante with one of the year’s finest slick-pop confections, Rick Ross returned with a banger, Annie is back in form with Richard X at the control board, Icona Pop released an anthemic counterpart to last year’s song of summer, Mister Heavenly-mates Honus Honus and Nick Thorburn released Man Man and Islands gems that feel informed by each other, Black Dice man Eric Copeland released some weird dance music, Earl Sweatshirt released some ominous rap music, Mazzy Star returned, J Mascis covered Mazzy Star, Chelsea Wolfe tapped her inner Liz Phair, Disclosure singer Sam Smith released a solo jam, SBTRKT singer Sampha released a solo jam, King Krule delivered a solo jam, No Age traded punk for a string section, and the A$AP dudes brought Shabba Ranks back into our lives.

And that is not even the full extent of the 30-song, two-hour July Monthly Mix that awaits your streaming. Summer may be ending, but this mix is forever. Stream, perpetual:

There’s no download, too few of these songs are available as MP3 to warrant a zipfile. (Any songs that are available for download will have a “Download” button appear under the “Share” button in the Soundcloud stream.)

Stereogum should do a monthly feature of the songs that were revealed through video form too and not just mp3 or streams since alot of times they don’t reach the top 5 videos of the week and get lost through the bunch or are not even music videos just lyric videos or reveals and lose spotlight in these monthly mixes

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